tideway

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The older men in the group were instrumental in reviving tideway rowing after the second world war and were a driving force behind initiatives for sculling, the discipline that uses two oars instead of one.

From The Guardian • Oct. 4, 2010

The starting point for The Weir and the Island, now owned by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, was the view Kienbusch got of a weir made of burnt spruce, set in a tideway.

From Time Magazine Archive

The other war head they cut adrift in the tideway.

From Time Magazine Archive

In these days Thames are rivals with London for the pick of the rowing talent of the tideway, and each acts as a stimulus to the other.

From Boating by Woodgate, W. B.

I could see nothing of the boat; doubtless it had passed out of sight behind a string of barges that lay in the tideway.

From The Red Symbol by Ironside, John